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Congress Opens Amid Naval and Tax Plans Face War-Era Aid
Washington dispatch reports the Sixty fourth Congress begins amid focus on national defense funding and revenue measures. Democrats seek army navy expansion, tariff and tax changes, and war-time financing while leaders warn of political sparring over bonds and tariffs as new session acts.
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